She said: ‘Everyone involved in the sport is extremely upset that we won’t be part of the Games in 2020. We will carry on learning from the bid process in the hope we can make Olympic status one day.’

Tokyo won the vote for the 2020 Games on Saturday night as a ‘safe pair of hands’ that could also boost the IOC’s finances.

‘You described yourself as a safe pair of hands and as a surgeon —even if I did not vote — this would appeal to me,’ IOC President Jacques Rogge told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during contract signing.